| Guy: | There are so many girls in the club who don't respect themselves. |
| Me: | How do you know they don't respect themselves? Is it because of what they're wearing? |
| Guy: | That and because of how they're dancing. |
| Me: | So what you're saying is because a girl dances in a way she finds fun while wearing a dress that makes her feel good, which may or may not be low-cut, tight, or short, she disrespects herself? |
| Guy: | Oh come on! You know there are those certain types of girls who act a certain way and therefore get treated in a certain way because they don't respect themselves. |
| Me: | No, I don't know that to be true. What I know is you're reinforcing the rape culture we currently live in. |
| Guy: | Look, I have cousins and sisters. I know what it's like, but you also have to understand that I'm a man and I... I have urges. |
| Me: | Oh? So if your cousins or sisters wore a dress they liked and danced a way they liked at a club, and a man just so happened to get urges because of their seductive nature, then they deserve to be treated a certain way by this guy? |
| Guy: | If a guy did that to my cousins or sisters, I would want to hurt him. |
| Me: | Then why is it okay for guys to do it to other girls because of the type of girl they are? |
| Guy: | But you have to admit there is a certain type of girl.... |
| Me: | No. Stop. There are no buts here. There is no "certain type of girl" who deserves to be treated in an inappropriate manner. What a girl wears and how a girl acts is in no way a key card to her sexuality. Clothing and behavior is not consent. You know what is? CONSENT. |